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winReInstall··on “Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans”
Now, imagine, real good research (Data-mining/AB-virtual-experiments) being done, with FG cooperate DBs containing the behaviour of almost all of western humanity. One can imagine the bombshells on which Google and Facebook (and others with acccess Palantir) are sitting quietly right now.

And while the racists and ideologists might use parts of the results to go at each others throats, the truth might even be more weird, turning humanity into a fully self aware grandfather clock, knowing what makes it tick, but unable to stop it.

The fact that Thiel just looked at it, and went full support of totalitarian decline, cause it can not be prevented anyway, gives you an idea on how total of a defeat through knowledge awaits in those DBs.

winReInstall··on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate
This whole experience sounds very labour camp like. Minus the electric fence. The way out is no longer that easy.

Of course the decorations are nicer and there are some who are kept around to work as "worser off" examples. But all in all, i guess most would cheer for the fall of this.

winReInstall··on A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
The tests were the friends we made along the way, and inside all of us all along >D
winReInstall··on These are not photos: landscapes created by new AI
I expect them to creep in at the closest up and the very far away. Filling in for skyboxes and detail textures..
winReInstall··on Enhanced Rock Weathering for CO2 Removal [video]
It needs to become a status symbol. Like a car or a dr. title. Something that society by convention is forced to recognize.
winReInstall··on Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)
The solution showed itself in the cold war.

Having the have it alls at gunpoint, forced to demonstrate the systems fitness & benefits to the citizens or perish. Which is why there needs to be a elphant graveyard clause in tax-law, that destroys all monopolies via taxation.

winReInstall··on Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems (2020)
Investment bubbles are at the root of houses.

Undertaxation is at the root of investment bubbles.

Accumulating economic energy devouring the containment of the system that created it, as at the root of the root of the rootproblem.

We need a dependency manager for discussion topics.

winReInstall··on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
It produced a stagnated society, which fell behind the rest of the world and was conquered by the british as punishment. And will be conquered by the next society that does embrace inner turmoil and change, creating competition.

Regarding the natural order of things and stability, i have my very own opinions, i have voiced here, which got me downvote left, right and center.

We would not have google maps, if the map makers guild & caste in old london could have prevented its creation.

Creative destruction beats stability and harmony every time. To enshrine them, is to praise your future decendants slavery and missery.

winReInstall··on Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination
In my opinion, companies should produce "challenges" for leading personal, from a sort of internal investigations team, and among them should be corruption challenges, security challenges, nepotism challenges and discrimination challenges.

If you fail them, you get demoted or otherwise restructured.

Of course, this creates a atmosphere of distrust, but some things, like Meritocratic atmosphere, are worth it.

winReInstall··on A farmer’s hunch led to a lost monastery and a Neolithic surprise
Its interesting how you get to know the land below you as a farmer. We had prehistoric chalk below our soil at my brothers farm, from ancient corall reefs. Over that were some sanddunes, and on top of that the actual soil layer.

Add to that some forgotten "landfills" of the 70s and you got a interesting underground plowing experience.

winReInstall··on Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense
Eh, both are alive and well, and are just power projection tools, aka irregular forces for dirty local conflicts the big players do not want to be involved in. Terrorism it is only when the dog bites the lord who hunts.
winReInstall··on The Case for Degrowth
Why is there never honesty in this talks.

Even the degrowth in japan is subsidized with growth in other regions. Real degrowth is instability, is human nature going feral back to religous roots, make many copies, fight the outsiders unbelievers, recover make many copies.

Cycling this drain, decomplexifies societies, loosing the ability to supply bureaucracy, research and experiments.

Lots of countries worldwide partially circle or circled in this loop.

One can not fix a situation, one does not talk and observe objectively. This includes disabilitys of the species as a system constraint.

winReInstall··on Francis Fukuyama: Paths to Depolarization
The polarization is wanted and created to prevent actual change away from a festering oligarchy. Even if one totalitarian wing would win, a new split would appear within, to prevent action.
winReInstall··on Iran makes first import order using cryptocurrency – report
Cause alot of regional ex-empires want to be empire again instead of the empire. Some of those empires, align with the us interests, others muddle through (turkey), others align with opposing ex-empires (syria) and some try to win it stand-alone (Iran).

The ferrocity of american hatred also seems to increase, the more cultural similarity there is. Russia with its redneck culture and iranians with there crazy almost protestant messianic streak, are to much of a mirror to not bark and bite at.

Crypto is to find out about the ten dolar wench as the ultimate key..

winReInstall··on Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
I bait and switch myself, i start working at something open source for me, then i switch once in the zone.
winReInstall··on A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (2019)
End of season forking them on to a hedgehog heap?
winReInstall··on Part of my code makes Copilot crash
The ____ church did interfere in all matters of life, big and small, none to trivial to no be guided by a enormous ritual rule book, always threatening disciplinary actions by the believing masses and social ostracizing.

Hurting the feelings of the true believers, was the ultimate sin, a sin often committed, but only punished if the sinner did not recant and change his ways, in a brutally public and official way. It was there, that the ____ church revealed what it was really all about all along. Societal control, maybe with good intentions to start with, but in the end, just control for its own sake and to prevent others from archieving the same control.

Not saying, that any social movement could turn into a religion. That would need strange clothing, processions, rituals, codified language and most of all a mythology.

I have no religious preference, im on the side of science and would like to have a civil society, were no member is violated by another. I would very much prefer it, if the combatant religions involved, could leave science alone. Reality is often disappointing.

May the religion with the least suffering caused win and then keep away from the state & power.

winReInstall··on Heat waves and flooding: Why U.S. infrastructure can't withstand extreme weather
No, its not. Not only. The political problem is a epxression of a deeper pathology. This species is unable to form innovative (free) societies without a constant surplus of ressources and energy.

We "unchanged" are a exponential curve, bumping against a linear ceiling and this needs to fixed first, to even have the mental tooling and stability to handle grand projects.

winReInstall··on Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly shaky
Honest debate was the ultimate adventure. Sad its gone, replaced by yelling matches in feeling hive-mind choirs. Guess this how medieval times felt, with oppossing faiths.
winReInstall··on The Harry Potter fallacy
Lets see how long we can keep this going, before the NDA gods hammer down.

Life longs for the exponential. Intelligent life defeats the predation of life by other life (bacteria, virals, predators, etc.) and allows for a exponential curve bumping into the resource ceiling , the line that is the environment. Again and again. Starts the moment you become apex predator actually.

Now darwinian evolution is blind, it just sees the merry go round spiral and adapts sub-groups of the population to it. Stable -> Exceeding Env Limitations -> Unstable -> Society Reassembling. Each of the four groups should in a cycling society be around 25 %. Each yearns for its natural situational habbitat and tries to push towards were it has advantages. Each has deep instincts, to not "waste" resources and step outside the god whorshipped which is a bloody wheel of butchering.

A stable society is basically only possible for brief amounts of time, where the wheel is propped up and technology used to harness a surplus to keep the cyclic society from returning to the "default" of old.

The amount of resources to do this, is enormous and some of the groups involved see this only as a "prolonged" recovery phase pre next conflict/collapse. Handing them the technology necessary to keep the peace, equals handing them apocalyptic weapons for conflict, should the peace break.

So its a trap, unless one learns to implement societal self-control, one will forever hand more dangerous toys to us loop-deformed creatures. Which would make a great explenation for a universal filter, if there ever was one.

winReInstall··on The Harry Potter fallacy
Wow, its like watching somebody getting born.

Now if we accept, that such variety of "castes" of unreasonable people exists and they do not want to "grow up", then society has to be adjusted for that, i guess. Making capability groups of neuro diverse people.

Such persons would need a representative politically, to speak in there interests. Such a person would need limitations, to limit the damage they could cause.

Reasonable people would have to be protected from this non-blue-blood class, to keep them productive and isolated. Systems need to created, to rile and cool the emotions of the non-logicals to make them steerable.

There should be a science to differentiate the various types of illogical people, based upon the data collected by the big four. And steering unreasonable people should be a science too.

We should call it something cool. Something witty. Leviathancybernetics. Get it. Hobbes, the leviathan, and the art to surgically implant synthetic structures and to turn society into a prothesis god.

Now, lets talk about the negative side effects of knowing so much about society and humans. It turns you into a grandfather clock. All you hear is gears and mechanics, grinding your teeth, while all you observe your own instincts firing from the sub concious.

winReInstall··on Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)
Shamelessness == Societal Decomplexification. Simplify a industrial society and you arrive after a mass death back in a rural community, were shame controls everything. To celebrate Decomplexification is to celebrate the downfall.
winReInstall··on Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
https://hackaday.com/2018/03/02/unionize-your-variables-an-i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development

This is unsafe C Code by nature, but test driven development on platform can make it "safe".

Now you start with a struct in the union: {inputA, inputB, inputC}

and pad the intermediate struct

{Padding against Overlap, resultB, result C}

and end up with the result struct in the same union.

{outputA, outputB, outputC} .

The trick is to keep track of the state and validate the "purity" via automated tests.

Then you have it all in one L1 Cache Line, pumping through a algo, no dereferences, no huge stack structures, its all there, as long sas the size of input output does not differ wildly.

Remember down there its all just bytes accessed by code. There is no such concept as objects or even variables. All those mental pots to grab things out and put things back in, are artificial constructs needed by us.

The machine down there, can go to work like a line cooking shiva in a trailer. And doing so and having this in view, makes it faster.

PS: Pointers within the struct nullifys the advantages gained here, because every pointer is a memory load and thus "relatively" slow.

winReInstall··on BMW’s Heated Seats as a Service Model Has Drivers Seeking Hacks
Thats the beauty of it. You can not. Because we do no longer have a free market. All car companies, belong by shareds to a few titanic entities, who will push this in lock step to all there companies. Welcome to the gilded age.
winReInstall··on Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy
Some of the books also ventured pretty close to darkness, Night Watch had humorist tracesd, but mostly it was a timejump back into a bleak, darker past.
winReInstall··on Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
Input, Output Unionnions. basically a input struct into a algorith, layed out in such a way, that the algorithms output, always only overwrites input no longer needed. If done well, this allows for hot-loops that basically go over one array for read & write-backs. After all, its all just memory and to use what you got in situ is the fastet way one can go.

No pointers to dereference and wait, just the input, computated, stored back into the same cacheline- to be used for the next part of the hot loop. If the hot-loop is multi staged and the output continously decreases in size, one can even "compress" the data, by packing an array of orgMaxisze/outputSize subunits into the unit.

winReInstall··on A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
Well, nobody has a chance in the us either. There are just various "industries" in need of fresh meat, who create a ilusion of "chance" to churn through idealistic, young people as a cheap labour source for jobs.
winReInstall··on John Romero is developing a new FPS
Now, now, he is getting on in years, is this realistic. The sword of time comes for us all at last.

Maybe he should seek out advice from the dread pirate roberts.

All jokes aside, his idea for daikatana was visionary, but the tech was not there and alot of the design decisions were never tried before.

winReInstall··on Oracle is the #1 contributor to the core of Linux in 5.18
It seems especially unwise now in the light of Apples M1 M2 arm shining a new light on a old x64x86 world.

Whoever made that decision is going to appear in economic textbooks in the DONT Exampels.

winReInstall··on Low water stage marks on hunger stones (2020)
What would it take to increase the likelihood of rain synthetically?

I know many are adverse to geo-engineering, but lets say i can predict the winds for the next days, i have a ocean, i have solar and ultrasonic humidifier , wouldnt it be feasable to basically create dense fog - cloud coverage from nothing that is then carried inlands were it rains down near mountain ranges?

You take one of the armies floating solar arrays, add the humidifiers and voila ready is a terra forming experiment never tried before.

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